July 21st | Lead & Learn Forum Click here for the schedule! Purpose The Lead & Learn Forum will equip school leaders with evidence-based leadership practices aligned with the CIWP foundations and the CPS School Leader Framework
Logistics
8:15 am - 3:35 pm
In-Person @ Hancock HS for all school leaders
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As generative AI becomes increasingly embedded in schools, leaders face new opportunities and new responsibilities. This interactive session explores how principals, assistant principals, and resident principals can thoughtfully leverage AI as a leadership thought partner while protecting relational trust, instructional quality, equity, and human judgment.
Through authentic leadership scenarios, collaborative discussion, and reflection, participants will examine how AI-generated communication and decision-making tools may unintentionally reproduce bias, deficit thinking, or inequitable patterns if not critically reviewed through an equity-centered lens. Leaders will explore where AI can strengthen communication, instructional leadership, strategic planning, and organizational coherence — and where caution, transparency, and human discernment remain essential.
Grounded in the guiding question, “What leadership work can be responsibly supported by AI — and what leadership work must remain deeply human?” participants will leave with practical protocols, reflection tools, and actionable strategies for leading responsibly in an AI-rich environment while maintaining inclusive, culturally responsive, and human-centered school communities.
